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Philadelphia (disambiguation)
Philadelphia (disambiguation)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a city in the United States and the largest city bearing that name. Greek for "brotherly love", it may also refer to: • The Philadelphia Experiment (film) is a movie based on the WWII experiment (see below for article) • Philadelphia International Records, a record label made popular by songstress Patti LaBelle • The Philadelphia Story, a 1940 motion picture comedy starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart • The Young Philadelphians, a 1959 film starring Paul Newman and Barbara Rush, and directed by Vincent Sherman
Places
United States
• Philadelphia, Indiana • Philadelphia, Mississippi • Philadelphia (town), New York • Philadelphia (village), New York • Philadelphia, Rockingham Township, Richmond County, North Carolina • Philadelphia, Tennessee
Other
• Philadelphia chromosome, a genetic abnormality that leads to chronic myelogenous leukemia • Philadelphia Church of God, a Christian denominational group formed in the late 1980s • Philadelphia cream cheese, the brand name of a line of cream cheese products, manufactured by Kraft Foods • Philadelphia Daily News, one of the major newspapers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA • Philadelphia Experiment, an alleged project to render ships invisible during World War II • The Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the major newspapers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA • Philadelphians, a 17th-century Protestant religious sect (sometimes called the "Philadelphian Society", or the "Philadelphia Society") • USS Philadelphia, one of several ships bearing the name • The Philadelphia, a short one act play
Outside the US
• Philadelphia, Germany, a former village, now part of Storkow, Oder-Spree, Brandenburg • Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear, a village north of Houghton-le-Spring, City of Sunderland, United Kingdom
Historical
• Alaşehir, Turkey was known as Philadelphia, one of the seven churches of Asia Minor in the Book of Revelation • Amman, Jordan was once called Philadelphia during the Hellenic and Roman eras • Darb Gerza, Egypt, an archeological site of a city called Philadelphia, now in the Al Fayyum Governorat
Entertainment
• Philadelphia (film), a film produced in 1993 and nominated for five Academy Awards • Philadelphia (song), award-nominated song also from that film, by Neil Young • "Streets of Philadelphia", awardwinning song from that film, by Bruce Springsteen
See also
• Filadelfia (disambiguation) • All pages beginning with Philadelphia
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Philadelphia (disambiguation)
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